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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER. E. BRUNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ACCOUNT SYSTEM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed August 12, 1907. Serial No. 388,179.

- the following is a specification, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to account systems, and has particularly to do with the keeping of a proper record of remittances.

It has for its object to provide an apparatus by which a plurality of copies of a proper remittance statement may be produced at a sin le writing and at the same time an origina check may be made out for the amount of the remittance, the check, however, bearing only such writing as is usually entered upon a check. It is obviously imperative that the writing on the check be the original writing. My improved apparatus is designed to accomplish this, and at the same time to secure theproduction of suitable entries on blanks underlying the check without having anything appear on the check except such matters as the date, the amount, and the name of the payee. I accomplish this object as illustrated in the drawings and as hereinafter described.

What I regard as new is set forth in the claims.

Generically speaking, my invention comprises a plurality of checks, arranged in the form of a plurality of pages each having a number of checks, said check pages being arranged to overlie a series of pages composed of a corresponding number of remittance statement blanks. The number of remittance statement pages immediately under each check page depends upon the number of manifold copies to be produced.

In the apparatus shown in the drawings, I have provided for producing three manifold copies of each remittance statement and check, but the number may be varied to provide for the necessities of any particular case. In addition to the check and remittance statement pages, I provide also a folding or swinging blind or mask bound or otherwise suitably pivoted or hinged at the left-hand edge of the check and statement pages, so that it may be folded over upon the exposed or uppermost check age. This blind or mask carries a series of printed blanks corresponding and registering with the blanks on the remittance statement page underlying the check page, except that the blind is cut away so as to expose that part of the check on which the original writing is to be made, thus permitting the user to write directly upon that portion of the check which appears through the cut-away portion of the blind.

It will thus be seen that the original entries in the several columns on the remittance statement are made on the blind and are transferred by the use of carbon sheets to the blanks underlying the checks. No carbon is placed between the blind and the check, so that the entries in said columns do not appear on the check. The original entry made upon the check through the cut-away portion of the blind is also transferred by the use of the carbon paper to the remittance statement underlying the check. Then the check page has been filled out, the blind may be destroyed, the checks and remittance statement pages being removed from the book in which they are usually bound. Where the blind is not preserved, it will be apparent that a separate blind is provided for each check page. If, however, the blind is written on with a stylus instead of with a pencil or pen, the same blind may be used for a plurality of check pages.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one form of apparatus embodying my invention.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a view of the complete apparatus, the lower righthand corners of the several pages being turned up. Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of one of the check pages. Fig. 4 is a view of one of the remittance statement pages. Fig. 5 is a view of the lowermost page which is in the form of an accounts payable journal and check register, but may be arranged for other uses.

Referring to Fig. 1, 6 indicates the blind or mask which immediately overlies the uppermost check page, and is cut away as shown at 7, 8, 9 and'lO, to expose a part of each of the checks forming the check page. As shown in Fig. 1, the exposed portion of the check comprises the blanks for the entry of the date, the amount in figures and words, and the name of the payee, in this case the name of the payee being placed below the line provided for the entry of the amount, so that the check may be mailed in 'a special form of envelop. Above the openings 7, 8,

mailed with the checks.

9 and 10, are columns for the entry of data which is to be furnished in the remittance statement, and such columns correspond and register with similar columns provided on the remittance statements shown in Fig. 4 which underlie the check pages.

11 indicates one of the check pages, which, as shown in Fig. 8, is composed of a plurality of checks after the manner of the pages of an ordinary check-book. Underlying each check page is an impression or carbon sheet 12 which may or may not be secured to the other pages, as desired.

13 indicates a remittance statement page, as best shown in Fig. 1, which page corre sponds with the blind or mask so far as its printed matter is concerned, except that in the space which registers with the cut-away portion of the mask there is a blank provided to receive the data written originally on the overlying check. The remittance statement page 13 is perforated after the manner of a page of a check-book so that the several remittance statements may be detached and It should be noted, however, that the lines of perforation 14 of the remittance page 13 do not register with the lines of perforation 15 of the check pages, but are somewhat higher up on the page. The object of this arrangement is to provide a suflicient space in the proper place for the several columns of the remittance statement blanks.

16 indicates a second carbon sheet which underlies the remittance statement page 13.

17 indicates a second remittance statement page which underlies the carbon 16, and 18 indicates a third carbon sheet which underlies the remittance statement page 17.

19 indicates the bottom page of the series which receives the same entries as the several remittance statement pages, and in addition has extended margins at the right hand edge and at the bottom for summarizing entries.

An important advantage from providing the bottom sheet 19 is that it provides for proving the correctness of the entries which may be accomplished by adding up the sepa rate check entries and balancing them with the total gross purchases less deductions and debits.

It will be understood, of course, that the several pages are bound or otherwise suitably secured together at the left-hand margin so that the ap aratus may be used in the form of av boo the carbon sheets being bound up with the other sheets or not as may be preferred.

Any suitable way of securing the several sheets together may be employed, as myin vention is not restricted to any special form of binding, provided the desired operation and results can be secured, as it includes generically an apparatus which can be used.

in connection with checks, etc, to enter memoranda or date on suitable blanks underlying the'checks without the entry appearing on the checks, and which at the same time will leave exposed a part of the checks so that matter required to be originally written thereon can be properly entered and at the same time duplicate entries thereof be made by manifolding on blanks underlying the checks.

The number of checks or blanks on a page may of course be varied as desired, and I wish it to be understood further that my invention in other respects is not limited to the specific features illustrated and described except in so far as they are particularly claimed.

Furthermore, while my improved. apparatus is designed primarily for the making of checks and statements as described, my invention. is not limited to such use alone, as it may be employed for other analogous uses, and the claims are to be construed accordingly.

that I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An accounting apparatus con'iprising a page of checks, one or more pages ruled and designated for statements underlying said page of checks, and a blindor mask above said. check page and arrangedv to expose a portion of each check.

2. An accounting apparatus comprising a page of checks, a page ruled and designated for statements underlying said page of checks, a blind or mask above said check page arranged to expose a portion of each check to receive the original writing, that por tion of said blind above the exposed portion of the check being arranged to register with the corresponding portion of the page [or statements, and a carbon. sheet between the page of checks and the page for statements.

3. An accounting apparatus comprising a page of checks, a page ruled and. designated for statements underlying the check page and having blanks which register with. corresponding portions of the overlying check page, and a mask overlying the check page and having a cut-away portion to expose a portion. of each check, the portion of the blind above the cut-away portion being printed to correspond with the underlying portion of the page for statements.

4. An accounting apparatus comprising a page of checks, a plurality of pages ruled and designated for statements underlyii'ig said page of checks, one of said pages for state ments. having extended margins, a mask overlying said page of checks, said mask being arranged to expose a portion. of the page of checks to permit of the making of original entries on the checks, and. having blanks registering with similar blanks on said pages for statements, andv carbon sheets between said pages for statements and between said page of checks and the uppermost page for statements.

5. An accounting apparatus comprising a age having a plurality of checks, a page ru ed and designated for statements forming a plurality of statement blanks corresponding With said checks, the upper and lower margins of said statement blanks being higher up on the page than the corresponding margins of the checks, and a blind or mask overlying the page of checks and having blanks overlying and registering With the corresponding portions of the statement blanks, said blind being arranged to expose a portion of 15 the checks so that the check may receive original Writing on the portion so exposed ELMER E. BRUNSON.

Vitnesses:

WILLIAM H. DE BUsK, 1 THOS. M. FAGAN. 

